Selling land in my Christian village to a Muslim has taken me on a journey into Lebanon’s sectarian reality, where relations among communities are marked by fear, hatred and violence.
In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discourse around myself and laying bare the territorial war over the land’s identity, where today’s stories of demographic fear between Shiite and Sunni Muslims and Christians, are mixed with stories from the civil war, when people were killed according to their identity. In this film, I combine elements of my individual memory and my country’s history. And, in parallel with the geographical journey, I transform my apartment into an exhibition space with photos and maps on my walls, a video projection, an audio installation and readings from history books.
